Brady Bunch star Susan Olsen doesn't look like this anymore as she is spotted on rare outing in LA
The 63-year-old actress - who played Cindy Brady from 1969 to 1974 - looked nearly unrecognizable when she stepped out to pick up her mail.
Olsen put on a casual display in a black, graphic T-shirt with burgundy red shorts.
Still sporting platinum blonde hair with bangs, she was spotted driving her white SUV.
Her outing comes shortly after she revealed she almost died while filming the pilot episode for The Brady Bunch in the late 60s.
She also recently opened up about the one gripe she had with playing the character of Cindy, the youngest Brady child of the bunch.
Appearing on The Real Brady Bros podcast earlier this year, where she also revealed she was gravely injured while filming the pilot, she said she didn't appreciate playing a dumbed down character.
Chatting with former co-stars Barry Williams and Christopher Knight, who played her TV brothers, she looked back on a scene from the pilot episode that illustrated Cindy's dense mind.
In the episode, Cindy and sisters Marcia and Jan talk to their mom Carol ahead of her wedding.
Carol says she feels butterflies, to which the youngest Brady replies, 'Are you sleeping with your mouth open, mommy?'
'That's just how my career was and it was something I had to accept,' Olsen said about her tendency to play dull roles.
Williams, 70, weighed in: 'Do you understand that you were the cutest person in the world? You're just adorable.'
The 63-year-old actress looked nearly unrecognizable when she stepped out in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning
And 67-year-old Knight added that the former child star Susan had a 'doll face.'
Williams also said that he and Knight were aware that Olsen was 'a little bit uncomfortable with the nature' of her character.
'You're so much smarter than the character and you're so much edgier than your character. But here it is right there. You're saying the most idiotic thing imaginable,' he observed.
During the same interview, Olsen also has revealed that a grave accident could have killed her while she filmed the pilot for the iconic series in the late 1960s.
She recounted being left with a swollen face after lighting equipment fell directly onto her.
'My eyes were black. I mean, I had two black eyes. My nose was swollen. My face was swollen,' the actress said on the rewatch podcast.
The incident happened the day before the cast gathered to film the pilot episode in 1969.
Just seven years old at the time, Olsen had been getting her makeup done when she was struck. She shared the story with former costars Barry Williams and Christopher Knight, and she noted that she wished her family had sued the studio for the accident.
'The saddest news is that we didn't sue Paramount, because I would have made more off of that than the show,' Olsen said candidly.
'But I came to work the next day. Florence [Henderson] was the first one to see me. She's like, "You make sure everybody sees her." And my mom was like, "Oh, yes, I will." Because everybody was trying to say, "It didn't really hit her. She's fine."'
The actress continued, 'I looked like I was in a horror film. And then everybody knew, yes, I had gotten hurt, and I had gotten hurt very badly.'
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